Posted on 05/26/2009 3:03:25 PM PDT by Maelstorm
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--A social researcher who has studied sexual behavior for 24 years believes the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has sound reasons for maintaining its prohibition against gay scoutmasters.
A homosexual cannot automatically be considered a child molester, said Judith Reisman, president of the Institute for Media Education in suburban Louisville, Ky.
But with 17-24 percent of boys being abused by age 18, nearly as many as the 25 percent of girls, there is cause for concern, she said.
Since heterosexuals outnumber the homosexual population about 44 to 1, as a group the incidence of homosexuals molesting children is up to 40 times greater than heterosexuals, she said.
"You're looking at a much higher rate of abuse," said Reisman, a former university research professor who recently completed a study titled, "Crafting Gay Children." "The Department of Justice just released data and the rate of abuse are off the charts."
BSA's policy has been the subject of constant attacks from gay activists, who have convinced a number of school boards to oust the Scouts from board property.
In a story that aired Apr. 1 on CBS, "60 Minutes" also questioned its validity. After California congressman Dana Rohrabacher called the prohibition common sense, reporter Lesley Stahl remarked that common sense turns out to be a myth.
According to the FBI and several clinical studies published in reputable journals, gay men aren't more likely to sexually abuse boys, she said.
"In fact, the largest database of child molesters in the country shows that those who molest boys are over three times more likely to be heterosexual in their adult relationships than homosexual," she said.
But Reisman points to figures from a 1991 population study by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
It showed that 8 million girls were abused by age 18 by heterosexual men, a ratio of 1 victim to 11 adult men. However, 6-8 million boys were abused by age 18 by 1-2 million adult homosexuals, a ratio of 3-5 victims for every gay adult.
Questioned about Reisman's claims, CBS stuck by its story.
Spokesman Kevin Tedesco said "60 Minutes" staffers spoke with leading sources of information on child molestation, including the FBI, American Psychological Association and several clinical researchers.
The database was assembled by psychologist Dr. Gene Able, director of the Behavioral Sciences Institute in Atlanta, he added.
However, Reisman also cites a past study by Able to bolster her contention that BSA has reason to fear admitting homosexuals to the scoutmaster ranks. It found that 150 boys are abused by one male homosexual offender, compared to 19.8 girls by heterosexual offenders.
In a study published in 1987 in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Able said homosexuals sexually molest young boys with an incidence five times greater than the molestation of girls. (Calls to Able seeking further comment were not returned.)
"We looked at the leading gay travel guide," Reisman said of her research. "Forty-seven percent of the 139 nations they talked about identified places to find boys. The average heterosexual travel guide is not concerned with finding children."
Crime statistics also pose concerns. Figures released last summer by the Justice Department reveal that adults are not the primary victims of sexual assault, she said.
They showed that 67 percent of all reported sex abuse victims are children and 64 percent of forcible sodomy victims are boys under 12.
Two analysts with Washington-based, pro-family organizations agree that homosexuals pose a greater risk to boys.
Tim Daily of the Family Research Council questioned "60 Minutes" claim that adults who molest boys can even be called heterosexual.
"I guess you determine someone's sexual orientation by their relationships," said Dailey, who wrote a paper on pedophilia in the fall of 1999.
"If a man is married and has sexual relations with boys, he's obviously a combination. To say he's heterosexual is an outrage. Overall he's a pedophile. Whether you call it omni-sexual or pan-sexual, he's indiscriminate...in relationships."
"Who cares if a guy is married?" echoed Peter LaBarbera, senior policy analyst for the Culture and Policy Institute, a division of Concerned Women of America. "If he's into molesting boys, that's homosexual behavior. It's academic nonsense to talk about these people as heterosexuals."
Editor of the monthly Lambda Report, LaBarbera has been following the homosexual movement for a decade. He said it is disproportionately involved in pedophilia, as shown by the large number of males among sexual abuse victims.
"The homosexual movement is shameless," he said. "Gay activists are the ones who are trying to bring down (the Boy Scouts), a venerated institution which has very little to do with sexuality. They're making it seem those who are against homosexuals are the problem."
Among the reasons Dailey cited for being concerned about the potential for homosexual molestation of boys:
-- Almost all sex crimes against children are committed by men and significant numbers of victims are males. In 1996, the journal Adolescence reported several studies indicate that up to one-third of all sex crimes against children are committed against boys.
-- Even homosexual activists don't try to hide the connection with pedophilia. In The Gay Report -- a book published back in 1979 -- authors Karla Jay and Allen Young found that 73 percent of those surveyed had had sexual relations with males 16 to 19 or younger.
-- A 1999 article in the Journal of Homosexuality by Helmut Graupner argued that same-sex relations with minors should be considered a gay rights issue. The article argued that children wouldn't necessarily be harmed by sexual contact with adults.
This debate flared up in New Jersey when a column by Toni Meyer, senior research analyst with the New Jersey Family Policy Council, appeared in several newspapers around the state.
Citing Reisman's research, she wrote, "We must speak up in support of the Boy Scouts to our community leaders and not allow them to be unfairly and unethically pressured to go against their standards.
"To allow them to be denied the support they need or public privileges they are entitled because of that stance would be a total disservice to, and a potentially dangerous decision, for society and our local communities."
That brought an angry response from New York's Glennda Testone, northern regional media manager for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).
"The incorrect stereotype of the gay man as a pedophile is one that has been medically and scientifically debunked," she said. "Heterosexual men were responsible for 74 percent of assaults on male victims and 77 percent of assaults on female victims, according to an American Academy of Pediatrics study (July 1994)."
However, Meyer says those statistics only prove her point -- a small number of the population is responsible for 26 percent of the assaults on boys.
"She overlooks there are a lot more heterosexuals than homosexuals," Meyer told Baptist Press. "People don't understand. You have to balance these numbers by overall population to see there's a greater incidence of abuse by gay men."
Gay couple left free to abuse boys - because social workers feared being branded homophobic
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-480151/Gay-couple-left-free-abuse-boys--social-workers-feared-branded-homophobic.html
This was the first gay couple to adopt in the UK. They knew the stakes and still molested.
D’ya think?
I mean, who woulda thunk it?
[head-slap]
Shhhh, don’t tell the MSM!
This is the prevailing story underlying the demise of Western Civilization.
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In other news, water is wet.
Yes it is. What gets me is that a few hours at the local library is all it takes to debunk the left. The sexual activist community don’t want Ozzie and Harriet Marriage that is a lie. What they want often too ugly for words.
I’m going to have to question the methodology of thise study, since for one thing pedophiles who abuse boys tend to have far more victims than those who abuse girls, so even a very small percentage of the homosexual population that does abuse boys could have a comparable number of victims to a much larger number of heterosexual men who abuse girls.
Still, I wouldn’t be surprised if the conclusion is nonetheless accurate.
You could probably make similar statistical cases for a lot of subgroups - catholic priests, childhood molestation victims, bald straight men, fat straight men, straight men into S&M, etc.
A homosexual cannot automatically be considered a child molester, said Judith Reisman, president of the Institute for Media Education in suburban Louisville, Ky... Since heterosexuals outnumber the homosexual population about 44 to 1, as a group the incidence of homosexuals molesting children is up to 40 times greater than heterosexuals, she said.
Any dogs or donkeys involved? :)
The coorelation between homosexuality and pedophilia has historically been spiked just as much as the medically proven link between abortion and the increased risk of breast cancer.
The MSM not only has blood on its hands but also the violated innocence of children.
It *absolutely* defies logic for a guy who routinely “does it” with adult females to “do” underage boys at the same time.It’s *so* illogical that I refuse to believe that it happens with *any* regularity regardless of what the American Psychological Association or “GLADD” says.
The conclusion is accurate. Moreover, a desire for “intergenerational intimacy” (their euphemism for pedophilia) is fairly mainstream among homosexual/bisexual males. For example, the 1972 “Gay Rights” platform, most of the planks of which have been or are on the cusp of being adopted, openly calls for the ELIMINATION of age-of-consent laws. Why? Because they want to have sex with children...NAMBLA isn’t an aberation.
One thing I never understood is the persistent claim, made whenever an adult male rapes an adolescent male, that molesters are more likely to be heterosexual. My question is, if the guy is raping boys, often boys on the verge of manhood, how the hell do you call him heterosexual? What kind of heterosexual is sexually attracted to a 14 year old boy?
I found this:
Pedophilia (the sexual abuse of a prepubescent child) among priests is extremely rare, affecting only 0.3% of the entire population of clergy. This figure, cited in the book Pedophiles and Priests by non-Catholic scholar, Philip Jenkins, is from the most comprehensive study to date, which found that only one out of 2,252 priests considered over a thirty-year period was afflicted with pedophilia.
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/facts/fm0011.html
Did you see this?
No goddamned queers in my Troop.
Human sexuality, especially male sexuality, is polymorphous, or utterly wild (far more so than animal sexuality).
- DENNIS PRAGER
http://catholiceducation.org/articles/sexuality/ho0003.html
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